Alabama coach Nick Saban joked after winning the national championship that he wondered if he had taken the right job when he was head coach of the Spartans.AP Photo

EAST LANSING — Arkansas coach Bret Bielema took a potshot at Alabama coach Nick Saban at a recent Razorback Club gathering, comparing his Big Ten record at Wisconsin (68-24) to Saban's five-year mark of 34-24-1 with Michigan State from 1995-99.

"You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare," Bielema said to the Razorback Club in Benton, Ark., according to the website Hootens.com.

Bielema told fans to "chill," via Twitter on Monday, and indicated he was joking.

"I'm really concerned about what we do here with our players, how we try to get the people in our organization to play at a high standard," Saban said. "I really don't defend anything I ever did any place we've ever been. Everybody has different situations they're in, everybody inherits different situations that they're in, you do the best you can to try to build a good program in those situations.

"That certainly is what we've always tried to do and continue to do and focus on the process of what we need to do to continue to be successful here."